so now youve had chance to think about it....

[ThatVikRinA22]

are you happy with how you voted?

i currently work in the nhs and am about to go into policing within the next month. 2 areas that are about to get axed massively.

are you happy with how you voted? i am the only one in my household and in my workplace who feels i was true to my beliefs and is still happy with how i voted.

are you still happy or do you think your were duped?

i voted labour and i would again.

WRT to Big Society I AM that volunteer; read at school, setting up autism support group- becuase I wanted to

Horrid of me it may be but the fact that someone is expecting me now to do it on top of all the day to day shit of being a carer etc makes me feel like saying stuff it, this is what we and my parents paid taxes for you ungrateful Bastards.

And it's another blow to me getting back into work- charity sector was my background: only the charity I worked for went under in my region.

But hecl what do we matter? We only pay taxes adn fight every single day to do our bit. We weren't born into the Right Societal Group.

Oh and there's a mum elsewhere on MN just ahd her funded twice weekly nursery palce cancelled to save money

She ahs 2 autistic kids and a DH not responding to his cancer treatment

I ahve no idea what her policitcs are, but's that's not Big Society, it's letting down teh most vulnerable.

The well known MN Mum whose summer hols help has been reduced, she has MS and her DD severe CP.

When people campaign and argue we often get painted as NIMBYs, people only concerned about the cuts that affect them. Yet my SSD has not yet started to implement cuts as my area of teh UK has reserves to tap into for a year.

I am however extremely worried about what I am seeing and the people it is affecting. I can live with most things, having to give up the fitness club that is my only social life as I can't manage the £25 monthly fee, DH wearing shows with holes in and the sole detached from teh upper- hey at elast it's summer right? That l;ast month I borrowed money from Mum for Tampons.

Some of the stuff is directly harmful though, stuff that wrecks lives. And I am pretty sure that;s where Big Society will damage things. Becuase where people loike me are scrabblinga round in teh background doing what we can there needs to be official central provision otherwise it all falls down.

At HomeStart, the charity I wroked for, we supported (as one of many groups) the people on the fringes of SSD provision, people who were almost going to be placed on registers. We're not in that area any more, so it seems to me logical that there will be many more people needinG SSD help- and they are getting cut. Deaths are a matter of time surely?

Yet where I live has an impending major sports tournament and they Council funded blue mood lighting under the motorway bridges. Fabbo

And now I shall piss off, apologise, stop ranting watch Holby and drink the last of the wine my friend gave me last week.

Again, sorry.

Well I voted Labour and would vote Labour again. I am mostly annoyed that the LibDems campaign seemed to consist of "vote for us because Labour can't win here" - end result being that what was a Labour seat became a Tory seat, Lib Dems came third but took enough of the Labour votes to secure a victory for the Tories... I know an awful lot of well meaning but gullible voters who believed them and voted accordingly but certainly wouldn't again.

I voted Labour, and am glad I went with my heart, despite the fact that the Tories have a strong grip here.

This government is really really frightening me.

Certainly am happy!

I voted Lib Dem , and we are in government. I dont know why Lib Dem voters would be unhappy with this.

I am happy with liberal conservatism moderated by compromise, with the wacky and the not nice at the fringes kept within bounds.I like the Big Society and less government.

Labour had to go. Our civil liberties were dissappearing so fast it was scary.

No I feel we were duped.
I would be more tactical with my vote if I could have a do over.

SOT why would one be happy with a party if the policies that mattered to them were ones that were lost in the coalition agreement?

Does it not then cease to be the manifesto one voted for?

Vince Cable doesn't look a happy bunny.

Read this to see how the Lib Dems are fairing in the cabinet room.

www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jul/11/civil-servant-diary-turmoil-whitehall

FrameyMcFrame "Big society? Big bollocks." - Don't think this government have one bollock (or chin) between them.

Voted Lib Dem here. Never again.

I voted LibDem and I don't understand why Lib Dem voters are so unhappy with the coalition. There is going to be a referendum on changing the voting system, the income tax threshold is going to be raised to £10,000 and there is going to be a pupil premium. So their three main policies are going to be implemented by the coalition. There have been concessions to the Conservatives but that is what coalition Government is. The Conservatives are the senior partner in the coalition as they have more seats so its inevitable that more of their policies are going to be implemented.

I nearly voted Lib Dem, but in the end I didn't, and voted Labour instead. I'm glad I did. As I face the very real possibility of my job being made redundant and a "volunteer" being brought in to do it instead for no pay, I'm glad I had nothing to do with the two faced slimy lying Lib Dems.

Big society is essential the good old Victorian laissez fair attitude. Lack of belief in a robust welfare state and rely on the few crumbs of comfort which charities will provide.

It is that transparent.

I voted labour and would do so again. I would not vote Libdem in a milion years - to me they are more pernicious than the tories, but wrapped in prettier packaging.

maria- have a read of Vince's autobio; bloody obvious why he's not happy LOL, especially the long passages being rude about tories / george Osbourne ? Tory financial policy, and showing his closeness to LAbour (he started out as a Labour rep)

Either he admits he was compeltely wrong on everything about the economy in which case with his background I am both and thinking then that he shouldn't be in economics anyway if his judgement is so poor

Or he's sold his soul

My guess is there's a soul less than there was

I voted labour so delighted with the result, considering there was a very slim chance they'd get returned. And frankly, who wants to be in government anyway - a poisoned chalice. To those looking for more Euroscepticism, I think it is extremely unlikely it will come, with the US senate blaming us for everything and Obama using 'Britain bashing' to build bridges with the Republicans, Europe is our only big alli. China here we come!

I voted Labour. I live in a traditionally Tory area so I knew it was a wasted vote. So glad I didn't vote Lib Dem, I would have felt betrayed. I could never bring myself to vote Conservative.

I voted Lib Dem - and will do so again when hell freezes over.

Big Society? Big wally!

(not big willy)

i think the lib dems have shot themselves in the foot bigstyle here then.

hope they think it was worth it.

i can't vote, not brit, but i believed in nick clegg, what a lie, sold his ideals for a fancy position, locally, we have a lib dem mp, who is the best, wouldn't change him for the world, alternative is tory, so. but general parlament, devastating, who knows what state the country will be in in 5 years... worst part, m ost people voted lib dem to keep the tories out, let that be a lesson to us all, from know on labour.

I voted Labour - and will do again. I would probably never have voted Lib Dem - but that doesn't stop me being dissapointed in them.

am i allowed to celebrate the fact that my thread has got to 10 pages?

i dont think ive ever had such a big one.

back to topic. just before the election there was much interest in how the mn contingent was going to vote. seems there are rather alot of labour voters on here. so how did the condems get in?
was it just the people who couldnt make up their mind and went for libdems as a protest? cross with labour, couldnt bring themselves to vote tory?

cos if so....(i dont need to tell you do i? rubbing salt into the wounds and all that....)

I voted labour

have just got back from my holidays. You have no idea how depressing it is to come back to this lot dismantling the welfare state and taking us back to casual philanthropy and the like

...it's going to be like the thirties by the time we have the chance to vote them out again; I'm afraid that by then the damage will be just about irreparable